Reviewer Category

Reviewer

International (Chair)

Professor Lynn Meek, Director of the L.H. Martin Institute of Higher Education Leadership and Management , University of Melbourne, Australia

•  Professor Meek, a sociologist (Cambridge) by training, has three decades of experience of researching higher education institutions, systems and policy issues.

•  Former Research Chair and Director in Higher Education Management and Policy, University of New England, 1996 - 2008

•  Has attracted nearly $3 million in competitive research grants, including six Australian Research Council large grants, five ARC small grants, an ARC SPIRT grant,

•  Research interests include University governance and management, research management, diversification of higher education institutions and systems, institutional amalgamations, organisational change and comparative HE systems.

•  Member of the UNESCO Scientific Committee for Asia and the Pacific

•  In 2010 he helped establish the Lund University UNESCO Chair in Research Management and Innovation Systems and the Associated UNITWIN network.

•  Member and chair of numerous international Board linked to teaching, research and quality

•  Undertaken numerous university reviews

International

Professor Jürgen Kohler, Former Rector, Greifswald University, Germany

•  1994 – 2000: Rector of Greifswald University, prior to that was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Business Management at Greifswald University

•  German university representative in the Council of Europe Committee on Higher Education and Research (CDESR)

•  Chair of the German Accreditation Council from 2005 to 2007

•  Member of the ENQA and EUA Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) Pool of Experts

•  Member of numerous accreditation commissions of the quality assurance

•  EQAR Appeals Committee Chair

•  Led numerous projects, presentations and chairing of workshops/meetings in the context of higher education and university governance reform in Europe.

Irish

Professor Gerard Wrixon, Former President, University College Cork

•  UCC President 1999-2007

•  Review Committee member on the HEA Commissioned Review of the IUQB in 2008

•  Chaired UCC's Quality Committee 1999-2007

•  NMRC Chair – IS09000 Accreditation Committee 1995-1999

•  IRIU Reviewer – DCU 2010

Student

Karina Ufert, ESU Nominee. Currently studying an MA in Social Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania

•  Current Vice Chairperson, European Students Union

•  European Students Union Executive Committee Member

•  Member of the ESU Quality Assurance Experts Pool

•  EUA IEP Expert – undertaken 2 EUA IEP Reviews in last two years

•  Member of the BFUG on Mobility

•  Senate member of Vilnius University, Lithuania

•  Former VP Lithuanian National Students Union

•  Member of the European Youth Forum Pool of trainers

External Stakeholder

Professor Paul Ramsden (UK Based) Former Founding Chief Executive of the UK's Higher Education Academy (Retired 2009) and Key Associate of Phillips KPA

•  Leading international authority on teaching, learning and leadership in higher education

•  In 2010, advisor to the Irish government's Strategy for Higher Education

•  In 2010 led a major review of the UK's National Student Survey and recently advised the UK Government on the future of teaching and the student experience

•  Panel member for the UK's 2008 Research Assessment Exercise

•  Former Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at the University of Sydney, and the foundation Director of the Griffith Institute for Higher Education at Griffith University.

•  Visiting professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, Adjunct professor, Macquarie University, Sydney

•  Chair of the Swedish National Agency for HE International Advisory Board

•  Honorary auditor, Australian Universities Quality Agency

Co-ordinating Reviewer

Ms Sarah Butler, Assistant Director in the Research, Development and Partnership Directorate of the QAA, UK and Special Adviser on Academic Quality, University of Sussex, UK

•  Between 1996 and 2008, responsible for the development, management and oversight of the University of Sussex internal quality assurance and enhancement procedures

•  Member of institutional recognition and re-recognition panel for each of Sussex University's seven collaborative partnerships

•  Member of the University's validation panels for programmes in partner institutions.

•  Regular participant in the national ARC quality practitioners' group and the University's representative on the Research Intensive Universities quality group

•  External expert member of the University College London (UCLs) Quality Management and Enhancement Committee since 2004, and External auditor for UCL Internal Quality Review (IQR) panels since 2001 (1-2 per year).

•  Since 2008, member of the UK's Advisory Group for self-certification of the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ) against the Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area (FQ-EHEA)

•  Assistant QAA Director co-ordinating institutional audits in England